Side A
Artist	Song	Buy
Lecia & Lucienne	Leve Livet (date unk) Danish
Raphael	Jinetes en el Cielo (1970) Spanish
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes	Seasons In The Sun (1997) English
Roberto Jordßn	Ven a Darme Amor (1976) Spanish
I Balordi	Venqono A Portarci Via Ah, Aah! (1966) Italian
ElSkelSiset	Humppaa, Saatanat! (1999) Finnish
Jeane Manson	C'est toi que J'aime (2003) French
Sylvie Vartan	Da Dou Ron Ron (60s) French
Patricia	Listen To Your Heart (ca 2000) English
Leandro & Leonardo	Cumade e Cumpade (1997) Portuguese
Elektricni Orgazam	Lui Lui (1986) Croatian
Laura Branigan	Gloria (1984) English
Chantal Renaud	C'est Bon Signe (1968) French
Sinn Sisamouth	I Love Petite Women (70s) Cambodian
The Ukrainians	Batyar (1992) Ukrainian
Dan Balan & Lucas Prata	Ma Ya Hi (2004) English
Amigos	Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand (prob 60s) German
April March	Chick Habit (1995) English
Selena	Fotos y Recuerdos (1994) Spanish
Eurfians	Waaro (60s) Dutch
Patrick Normand	Aiko,Aiko (date unk) French
Giovanna Fornaro	Bidi Bidi Bom Bom (2004) Portuguese
Caballo Dorado	No Rompas Mas Mi Pobre Corazon (1998) Spanish
Blondie	Denis (1978) partly French
Sonia	Aqui En Mi Nube (60s) Spanish
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
"It's My Party"
"Ghost Riders in the Sky"
"Le Moribond" orig in French
"Come and Get Your Love"
"They're Coming to Take Me Away"
"Gimme Some Lovin"
"Stand By Your Man"
"Da Doo Ron Ron"
"Sans Contrefaton" orig in French
"Commadre, Compadre" orig in Spanish
guess this one!
"Gloria" orig in Italian
"Bottle of Wine"
"Black Magic Woman"
"Bigmouth Strikes Again"
"Dragostea Din Tei" orig in Romanian
"I Wanna Hold Your Hand"
"Laisse Tomber Les Filles" orig in French
"Back on the Chain Gang"
"Wild Thing"
"Jockomo" or more often "Iko Iko"
same title, orig in Spanish
"Achy Breaky Heart"
"Denise"
"Get Off My Cloud"

Comment:

This is a selection of mostly fun-type covers that are not in the same
language as the song they are covering.
The title of the original song is in column 3, along with its language if not English. (It is a
CD not a cassette.)

Something to know about foreign language covers: this is not the Rosetta Stone.
Often, the translated lyrics have little to do with the original lyrics.

How did the numa-numa geek transform from making love (dragostea) under a linden tree (tei) to
running around with a can of spray paint?

You know the mysterious "Iko Iko" refrain? Patrick Normand turns it into a list of friends: "I'm talking about Anna,
Anna/Iko-Iko and me/Jockomo told me so."

Like the Pretenders, Selena looks at a photo that triggers memories of a lost loved one.
But the metaphor gets ditched as "Back on the Chain Gang" becomes
"Photos and Memories."

Most English covers of
Jacques Brel's "Le Moribond" use the "Seasons in the Sun" lyrics
by poet Rod McKuen.
And poetic they are, changing
"You can dance, do not frown/when they lay me in the ground" to
"But the stars we could reach/Were just starfish on the beach."

"Sans Contrefaton" by pop goddess MylFne Farmer is a great gender-bender that could have been accurately rendered in
English something like "This
is not a joke/I really am a dude/and for all the world/I won't undress for you."
Patricia un-benders it to "Take me
for a ride/in the middle of the night/you're a world apart/you're my lucky star."

Which is the better come-on: "Wild Thing, you make my heart sing" or "Hey you there-o, come over here-o"?
Don't answer that until you know that the latter is followed by an explanation of how mustard makes
his toes curl in his shoes.

I was pretty well fixed for Fren-Span-Port, but the rest required major scrounging further research.
Special
thanks to magnificent mixers Moe and Dead Man, and to wonderful webmasters
Phil at
Probe
and Theo at
The Louie Louie Pages.

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